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The strip featured young office boy Smitty, his six-year-old brother Herby, his girlfriend Ginny and his dog Scraps. Other characters were Smitty's boss, Mr. Bailey, and the Indian guide, Little Moose. Berndt based the strip on his own experience as an office boy, recalling, "I learned the tricks, shenangians and schemes of an office boy and became expert at them."[1] Berndt saw his creation as featuring "flashbacks of things you did as a young fellow."[1] As the strip progressed, the teenage Smitty aged to young adulthood (approximately 13 to 23) and eventually got married. From 1938 through 1960, Berndt also produced the comic strip Herby as a topper to Smitty.

Berndt's first strip, That's Different, drawn for the Bell Syndicate, lasted less than a year. In 1922, he created Smitty, which he continued until 1973. Yet it did not begin without a struggle, as cartoonist Mike Lynch described in a 2005 lecture:

After a stint drawing sports cartoons under T.A. "TAD" Dorgan (If you look at Walter Berndt's signature, you can see he draws his "T" just like TAD did), he took over the And the Fun Begins panel from Milt Gross. By 1920, Berndt had left the Journal to start his own strip. The strip lasted a year. Then he worked at The New York World. But within weeks, he was fired for insubordination. (I tried to find out more about this, but this is all I know.) Berndt was out of work and broke. So, with zany cartoonist timing, he got married! And then he began making the rounds with a new strip titled Billy the Office Boy. It was 1922. The World Series was on. Big news, and so no one could get near the editors. Berndt couldn't get in to see anyone. Segar said there wasn't a World Series in Chicago and suggested he send the proposal to Captain Patterson. So Berndt mailed the strip to the Chicago Tribune. Patterson, opening a phone book for reference, renamed it Smitty and bought it at Berndt's high asking price. The strip became a mainstay, with the adventures of Smitty and Herby continuing for over 50 years.[2]

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Walter Berndt
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Walter Berndt was a cartoonist known for his long-run comic strip, Smitty, which he drew for 50 years. E. Powers, C. D. Batchelor, Sterrett, not much money but a million dollars worth of experience. Stayed with the New York Journal for five years, sweeping floors, running errands, drawing strips, sport cartoons, Then one year with World Telegram. From there to the Daily News in 1922 where Smitty and Herby work for me, golf used to be my love, but it is now taboo. So now its a little swimmin in my pool, ed Black wrote about the method E. C. Segar and Berndt used to generate ideas, Segar did another strip in the 1920s. Berndt was doing a strip called Then the Fun Began. Both Segar and Berndt would finish their work by noon then steal away to an old pier on the Jersey side, wed finish the day with a bunch of fish and about 15 or 20 ideas each, Berndt once said. Then the Fun Began was appearing as early as March 3,1919, when Berndt left that strip on October 13,1921, it was taken over by Fred Faber, who continued it until 1928. Berndts first strip, Thats Different, drawn for the Bell Syndicate, in 1922, he created Smitty, which he continued until 1973, working with his assistant Charles Mueller. Yet it did not begin without a struggle, as cartoonist Mike Lynch described in a 2005 lecture, tad Dorgan, he took over the And the Fun Begins panel from Milt Gross. By 1920 Berndt had left the Journal to start his own strip, Then he worked at The New York World. But, within weeks, he was fired for insubordination, Berndt was out of work and broke. So, with zany cartoonist timing, he got married, and then he began making the rounds with a new strip titled Billy the Office Boy. Big news, and so no one could get near the editors, Berndt couldnt get in to see anyone. Segar said there wasnt a World Series in Chicago and suggested he send the proposal to Captain Patterson, so Berndt mailed the strip to the Chicago Tribune. Patterson, opening a book for reference, renamed it Smitty. The strip became a mainstay, with the adventures of Smitty, in 1937, Berndt moved to Port Jefferson, Long Island, where he lived until his death at age 79

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Comic strip
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A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. With the development of the internet, they began to online as web comics. There were more than 200 different comic strips and daily cartoon panels in American newspapers alone each day for most of the 20th century, Strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist. As the name implies, comic strips can be humorous, starting in the late 1920s, comic strips expanded from their mirthful origins to feature adventure stories, as seen in Popeye, Captain Easy, Buck Rogers, Tarzan, and The Adventures of Tintin. Soap-opera continuity strips such as Judge Parker and Mary Worth gained popularity in the 1940s, all are called, generically, comic strips, though cartoonist Will Eisner has suggested that sequential art would be a better genre-neutral name. In the UK and the rest of Europe, comic strips are also serialized in comic book magazines, storytelling using a sequence of pictures has existed through history. One medieval European example in textile form is the Bayeux Tapestry, printed examples emerged in 19th-century Germany and in 18th-century England, where some of the first satirical or humorous sequential narrative drawings were produced. William Hogarths 18th century English cartoons include both narrative sequences, such as A Rakes Progress, and single panels, in China, with its traditions of block printing and of the incorporation of text with image, experiments with what became lianhuanhua date back to 1884. The first newspaper comic strips appeared in North America in the late 19th century, the Yellow Kid is usually credited as one of the first newspaper strips. However, the art form combining words and pictures developed gradually, swiss author and caricature artist Rodolphe Töpffer is considered the father of the modern comic strips. In 1865, German painter, author, and caricaturist Wilhelm Busch created the strip Max and Moritz, Max and Moritz provided an inspiration for German immigrant Rudolph Dirks, who created the Katzenjammer Kids in 1897. Familiar comic-strip iconography such as stars for pain, sawing logs for snoring, speech balloons, hugely popular, Katzenjammer Kids occasioned one of the first comic-strip copyright ownership suits in the history of the medium. When Dirks left William Randolph Hearst for the promise of a better salary under Joseph Pulitzer, it was an unusual move, in a highly unusual court decision, Hearst retained the rights to the name Katzenjammer Kids, while creator Dirks retained the rights to the characters. Hearst promptly hired Harold Knerr to draw his own version of the strip, Dirks renamed his version Hans and Fritz. Thus, two versions distributed by rival syndicates graced the pages for decades. Dirks version, eventually distributed by United Feature Syndicate, ran until 1979, in the United States, the great popularity of comics sprang from the newspaper war between Pulitzer and Hearst. On January 31,1912, Hearst introduced the nations first full daily comic page in his New York Evening Journal, the history of this newspaper rivalry and the rapid appearance of comic strips in most major American newspapers is discussed by Ian Gordon. The longest running American comic strips are,1, barney Google and Snuffy Smith 5

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Reuben Award
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The National Cartoonists Society is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States. It presents the National Cartoonists Society Awards, the Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the troops. They enjoyed each others company and decided to meet on a regular basis, only recently has the National Cartoonists Society embraced web comics. Membership is limited to established professional cartoonists, with a few exceptions of outstanding persons in affiliated fields, the NCS is not a guild or labor union. The National Cartoonists Society had its origins during World War II when cartoonists Gus Edson, Otto Soglow, Clarence D. Russell, Bob Dunn, Edson recalled, “We played two spots. And then we quit the USO. ”They were lured away by choreographer and former Rockette Toni Mendez, when she learned of these chalk talks, she recruited the cartoonists to do shows for the Hospital Committee of the American Theatre Wing. Beginning with a performance emceed by humor columnist Bugs Baer at Halloran Hospital on Staten Island, the group expanded to junkets on military transport planes, flying to military bases along the southeastern seaboard. On one of those flights, Russell proposed a club to Rube Goldberg, Mendez recalled, He said, Everybody has a club or an association or some kind—lumber jacks, undertakers, rug weavers, even garbage collectors—so I don’t see why we can’t have one, too. All during the flight, Rube kept saying, No—leave us alone, C. D. turned to me and he said, And no girls. And he went up and down the aisle of the plane, the Society was organized on a Friday evening, March 1,1946, when 26 cartoonists gathered at 7pm in the Barberry Room on East 52nd Street in Manhattan. After drinks and dinner, they voted to determine officers and a name for their new organization and it was initially known as The Cartoonists Society. Goldberg was elected president with Russell Patterson as vice president, C. D. Russell as secretary and Milton Caniff, Soglow was later added as second vice president. Mendez functioned as the Societys trouble-shooter and later became an agent representing more than 50 cartoonists, yardley, sports cartoonist Lou Hanlon, illustrator Russell Patterson and comic book artists Joe Shuster and Joe Musial. More members joined by mid-May 1946, including Harold Gray and the Society’s first animator, Paul Terry, followed in the summer by letterer Frank Engli, Bela Zaboly, Al Capp, seibel and sports cartoonist Willard Mullin. Her name was on all the Society’s publications, and her address was the permanent mailing address of the NCS for more than 30 years, as the organizing secretary, she handled agendas, organization and publicity. “She practically ran the damn thing, ” Caniff recalled, “A real autocrat, and everyone was delighted to have her be an autocrat because that’s what we needed. On November 6,1951,49 members of the NCS arrived at Washingtons Carlton Hotel for breakfast with Harry S. Truman, when Al Posen originated the idea of National Cartoonists Society tours to entertain American servicemen, he became the NCS Director of Overseas Shows. On October 4,1952, nine cartoonists left on a USO-Camp Shows tour of U. S, armed Forces installations in Europe, traveling via a Military Air Transport Service plane from Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts and landing at Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany

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Topper (comic strip)
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A topper in comic strip parlance is a small secondary strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip. In the 1920s and 1930s, leading cartoonists were given full pages in the Sunday comics sections, allowing them to add smaller strips, toppers usually were drawn by the same artist as the larger strip. These strips usually were positioned at the top of the page, toppers were introduced by King Features Syndicate during the 1920s, enabling newspaper editors to claim more comic strips without adding more pages. The practice allowed newspapers to drop the topper and place an additional strip or an advertisement into the Sunday comics section. They also made it possible to reformat a strip from full-page size to tabloid size, on May 16,1926, Harold Knerr began Dinglehoofer und His Dog Adolph, a topper to The Katzenjammer Kids, which ran until two years after his death. By 1936, to any association with Adolf Hitler, the dogs name was changed to Schnappsy. Knerrs strip was reformatted for reprints in Magic Comics in the early 1940s, billy DeBecks topper for Barney Google was Parlor Bedroom and Sink, which evolved into Parlor Bedroom and Sink Starring Bunky and eventually was titled simply Bunky. In the mid-1930s, DeBeck added alongside Bunky a single-panel topper, Knee-Hi-Knoodles, Bunky spawned the catchphrase, Youse is a viper, Fagin. A big fan of Bunky was pulp author Robert E. Howard, kept up with the strip, and retold it in a charming way. Liked to talk Brooklynese, and once entered a dry goods store. Characters in toppers sometimes turned up in the strip, such as Herby appearing in Smitty. R. Williams Out Our Way with the Willets Sunday strip, the Wash Tubbs Sunday strip ran in that format from 1927 until 1933, when Crane launched Captain Easy as a Sunday page. As a consequence, The Squirrel Cage is today better remembered than Room and Board, on at least one occasion, a character exited the topper and dropped down into the main strip. During the 1940s, Snookums ran as the topper above Bringing Up Father, in the final episode of HBOs The Pacific, Robert Leckie is seen reading Snookums. The first, Petes Pup, was a dog strip, sort of a counterpart to the Mutt and Jeff topper. The next was The Topper Twins, my favorite because the name is an in-joke to the industry term topper, for some reason, Russell alternatively called this strip The Tucker Twins. It started in 1935 and is believed to have run as late as 1939, getting an end date on these later toppers can be a Herculean task, because fewer and fewer papers printed the toppers as the decade of the 1930s wore on. In fact, I have no examples of Snorky later than 1937 in my collection, some toppers consisted of only a single panel, an example being those that accompanied Joe Palooka in the mid-1940s

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Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
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Thomas Aloysius Dorgan, also known as Tad Dorgan, was an American cartoonist who signed his drawings as Tad. He is known for his cartoon panel Indoor Sports and the many words, Dorgan was born in San Francisco on April 29,1877. He was one of at least 11 children—six sons and five daughters – of Thomas J. and his brother John L. Ike Dorgan was publicity manager for the Madison Square Garden, and his brother Richard W. Dick Dorgan was an illustrator and cartoonist. Polytechnic High School teachers Rosey Murdoch and Maria Van Vieck recognized and encouraged Tads talent as an artist, when he was 13 years old, he lost the last three fingers of his right hand in an accident with a factory machine. He took up drawing for therapy, a year later at the age of 14 he joined the art staff of the San Francisco Bulletin. He created his first comic strip, Johnny Wise, for the San Francisco Chronicle in 1902, by 1905 he was working in New York City at the New York Journal as a sports writer and cartoonist. Jack Dempsey described him as the greatest authority on boxing, in addition to his work as a sports journalist, Dorgan did a humor feature, Daffydills. His dog cartoons, including Judge Rummy, evolved into the strip Silk Hat Harrys Divorce Suit and this was accompanied by a one-panel gag series called Indoor Sports which became his main feature, along with an occasional Outdoor Sports. In the New York Times obituary, he was bracketed with George Ade and his obituary also credited him as the originator of Twenty-three, Skidoo, solid ivory, Dumb Dora, finale hopper, Benny for hat, and dogs for shoes. W. J. Funk, of the Funk and Wagnalls dictionary company, Dorgan was erroneously credited with coining the usage of the phrase hot dog in reference to sausage. Tad Dorgan and his wife, Izole M. lived in a Great Neck and they had no children, but they raised two Chinese children to adulthood. He died in Great Neck of heart disease, hastened by pneumonia, hearst newspapers announced his passing in front-page headlines and some of his cartoons were reprinted for a short time. Izole Dorgan, a writer before she married, was the vice-president of the National Doll, after Tads death, she started a successful business manufacturing doll furniture. Dorgans first book collection was Daffydills, published by Cupples & Leon in 1911 and this was followed by several Indoor Sports collections. The Ohio State University Press,2008, etymology and Linguistic Principles, V.3, Rolla MO, G. Cohen,1993. TAD IS DONE, SERIOUSLY - obituary by Westbrook Pegler, published in the Washington Post, May 31929, archived at Allan Holtzs StrippersGuide Lambiek Comiclopedia Tads Bonehead Barry baseball strip

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Milt Gross
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Milt Gross was an American cartoonist and animator. His work is noted for its exaggerated cartoon style and Yiddish-inflected English dialogue and he originated the non-sequitur Banana Oil. as a phrase deflating pomposity and posing. His character Count Screwlooses admonition, Iggy, keep an eye on me, the National Cartoonists Society fund to aid indigent cartoonists and their families for many years was known as the Milt Gross Fund. In 2005, it was absorbed by the Societys Foundation, which continues the work of the Fund. Gross was born in the Bronx and served as a soldier in World War I and it was one of several short-lived comic strips before his first success, Gross Exaggerations, which began as an illustrated column, Gross Exaggerations in the Dumbwaiter, in the New York World. Originally titled Banana Oil until 1925, the strip was retitled Gross Exaggerations until becoming The Feitelbaum Family on June 1,1926. Its Yinglish vocabulary would set the tone for much of Gross work, as would its reworkings of well-known tales, as in Nize Ferry-tail from Elledin witt de Wanderful Lemp and these were gathered in a 1926 book Nize Baby, which evolved into a Sunday newspaper color comic strip. In subsequent years, Gross followed with De Night in de Front from Chreesmas, Dunt Esk and Famous Fimmales witt Odder Ewents from Heestory. In 1930, Gross published what many consider his masterpiece, the pantomime tale He Done Her Wrong, The Great American Novel and Not a Word in It — No Music, Too. Minus words, this novel is composed entirely of cartoons, nearly 300 pages long. It resembled Lynd Wards Gods Man, the first American wordless novel and it has been reprinted several times, including an abridged version in 1983 and in 2005 by Fantagraphics, under its original title. While his strips vocabulary moved closer to standard English over time, in 1936, he illustrated two books in collaboration, Pasha the Persian and Whats This. In 1945, the year of his book Dear Dollink, he suffered a heart attack and his last book was I Shouda Ate the Eclair, in which one Mr. Figgits nearly starts World War III because he refuses to eat a chocolate éclair. In 1946–47, his work appeared in the comic book Picture News. His final published work appeared in the pages of books published by American Comics Group. In 1950, two of his books were combined as Hiawatta and De Night in De Front From Chreesmas. Gross made occasional animated films through the silent film era, including The Ups & Downs of Mr. Phool Phan, Useless Hints by Fuller Prunes, Izzy Able the Detective, most of these were for the studio of John R. Bray. In 1939, he returned to animation with two MGM cartoons, Jitterbug Follies and Wanted, No Master, featuring Count Screwloose (voiced by Mel Blanc, according to Bill Littlejohn they were both extremely funny works

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Chicago Tribune
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The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by tronc, Inc. formerly Tribune Publishing. The Tribune was founded by James Kelly, John E. Wheeler, forrest, publishing its first edition on June 10,1847. The paper saw numerous changes in ownership and editorship over the eight years. Initially, the Tribune was not politically affiliated but tended to either the Whig or Free Soil parties against the Democrats in elections. By late 1853, it was frequently running xenophobic editorials that criticized foreigners, about this time it also became a strong proponent of temperance. Ray became editor-in-chief, Medill became the editor, and Alfred Cowles, Sr. brother of Edwin Cowles. Each purchased one third of the Tribune, under their leadership the Tribune distanced itself from the Know Nothings and became the main Chicago organ of the Republican Party. However, the continued to print anti-Catholic and anti-Irish editorials. Between 1858 and 1860, the paper was known as the Chicago Press & Tribune, on October 25,1860, it became the Chicago Daily Tribune. Before and during the American Civil War, the new editors pushed an abolitionist agenda and strongly supported Abraham Lincoln, the paper remained a force in Republican politics for years afterwards. In 1861, the Tribune published new lyrics for the song John Browns Body by William W. Patton, Medill served as mayor of Chicago for one term after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Under the 20th-century editorship of Colonel Robert R. Joseph McCarthy, when McCormick assumed the position of co-editor in 1910, the Tribune was the third-best-selling paper among Chicagos eight dailies, with a circulation of only 188,000. At the same time, the Tribune competed with the Hearst paper, by 1914, the cousins succeeded in forcing out Managing Editor William Keeley. By 1918, the Examiner was forced to merge with the Chicago Herald, in 1919, Patterson left the Tribune and moved to New York to launch his own newspaper, the New York Daily News. In a renewed war with Hearsts Herald-Examiner, McCormick and Hearst ran rival lotteries in 1922. The Tribune won the battle, adding 250,000 readers to its ranks, also in 1922, the Chicago Tribune hosted an international design competition for its new headquarters, the Tribune Tower. The competition worked brilliantly as a publicity stunt, and more than 260 entries were received, the winner was a neo-Gothic design by New York architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood. The newspaper sponsored an attempt at Arctic aviation in 1929

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Don Markstein's Toonopedia
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Don Marksteins Toonopedia is a web encyclopedia of print cartoons, comic strips and animation, initiated February 13,2001. Markstein began the project during 1999 with several titles, He changed Dons Cartoon Encyberpedia to Don Marksteins Cartoonopedia after learning the word Encyberpedia had been trademarked. During 2001, he settled on his title, noting, Decided to change the name of the site to Don Marksteins Toonopedia. Better rhythm in the name, plus toon is probably a more apt word, in modern parlance, than cartoon, Toonopedia author Donald David Markstein was fascinated with all forms of cartoon art since his childhood. During 1981, Markstein and his wife, GiGi Dane, founded Apatoons and he edited Comics Revue, a monthly anthology of newspaper comics, from 1984 to 1987, and 1992 to 1996. A writer for Walt Disney Comics, Markstein based Toonopedia on American, Toonopedia accumulated over 1,800 articles since its launch on February 13,2001. During 2002, Charles Bowen reviewing the site for Editor & Publisher, said, For journalists researching stories, a case in point is Don Marksteins simply amazing Toonopedia, a vast repository of information about comics, past and future. Now, honestly, unless youre a comic book collector or a cartoonist, Markstein worked on the staff of the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper, writing feature stories for the Sunday magazine section. His comic book scripts are mainly for licensed characters, including Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, graphic Novel Review for Libraries was Marksteins periodical guide for librarians. For each 20-page issue of the magazine, he reviewed 25–30 graphic novels. This caused him to be paralyzed on his left side and he died of respiratory failure in March 2012. In 2012, Marksteins family announced plans to continue updating Toonopedia through new articles written by fans, the subject matter of Toonopedia overlaps with the books Markstein wrote, edited and compiled. A Prince Valiant Companion, by Todd Goldberg and Carl J. Horak, was edited by Markstein, the CD-ROM is a digital compendium of stories, games, movie stills, poetry, artwork, flags and music about pirates. Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Dave Strickler List of newspaper comic strips List of online encyclopedias Don Marksteins Toonopedia, archived from the original on March 11,2012

Walter Berndt
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Walter Berndt was a cartoonist known for his long-run comic strip, Smitty, which he drew for 50 years. E. Powers, C. D. Batchelor, Sterrett, not much money but a million dollars worth of experience. Stayed with the New York Journal for five years, sweeping floors, running errands, drawing strips, sport cartoons, Then one year with World Telegram. F

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Walter Berndt

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Walter Berndt's Smitty (May 5, 1933)

Comic strip
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A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. With the development of the internet, they began to online as web comics. There were more than 200 different comic strips and daily cartoon panels in American newspapers alone each

Reuben Award
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The National Cartoonists Society is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States. It presents the National Cartoonists Society Awards, the Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the troops. They enjoyed each others company and decided to meet on a regular basis, only recently has the Nation

Topper (comic strip)
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A topper in comic strip parlance is a small secondary strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip. In the 1920s and 1930s, leading cartoonists were given full pages in the Sunday comics sections, allowing them to add smaller strips, toppers usually were drawn by the same artist as the larger strip. These strips usually were positioned at the top of

Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
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Thomas Aloysius Dorgan, also known as Tad Dorgan, was an American cartoonist who signed his drawings as Tad. He is known for his cartoon panel Indoor Sports and the many words, Dorgan was born in San Francisco on April 29,1877. He was one of at least 11 children—six sons and five daughters – of Thomas J. and his brother John L. Ike Dorgan was publi

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1919 advertisement with Dorgan

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Thomas Aloysius Dorgan

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Tad Dorgan comic strip (1920)

Milt Gross
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Milt Gross was an American cartoonist and animator. His work is noted for its exaggerated cartoon style and Yiddish-inflected English dialogue and he originated the non-sequitur Banana Oil. as a phrase deflating pomposity and posing. His character Count Screwlooses admonition, Iggy, keep an eye on me, the National Cartoonists Society fund to aid in

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Milt Gross

Chicago Tribune
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The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by tronc, Inc. formerly Tribune Publishing. The Tribune was founded by James Kelly, John E. Wheeler, forrest, publishing its first edition on June 10,1847. The paper saw numerous changes in ownership and editorship over the eight years. Initially, the Tribune

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An 1870 advertisement for Chicago Tribune subscriptions.

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The lead editorial in the first issue the Chicago Tribune published after the Great Chicago Fire

Don Markstein's Toonopedia
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Don Marksteins Toonopedia is a web encyclopedia of print cartoons, comic strips and animation, initiated February 13,2001. Markstein began the project during 1999 with several titles, He changed Dons Cartoon Encyberpedia to Don Marksteins Cartoonopedia after learning the word Encyberpedia had been trademarked. During 2001, he settled on his title,